Mesa Laboratories Inc
Mesa Laboratories Inc (MLAB) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Scientific & Technical Instruments, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Lakewood, United States and has 717 employees. The company is worth $722.43M and trades at 151.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $249.13M in fiscal 2026, up 3.4% from the year before. Net income was $6.71M. The share price is 10.6% below its 52-week high of $144.35. It pays a dividend yielding 0.50%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $20.28M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -60.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $411.14▼ -58.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 16 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $122.48 | $78.50 | $131.87 | $104.77 | $166.21 | $328.09 | $286.64 | $249.40 | $208.39 | $124.30 | $122.75 | $99.50 | $77.31 | $78.58 | $50.11 | $41.44 | |
| P/E | 37.8x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 37.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 13.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RXTRackspace Technology, Inc. | $2.82 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $718.74M |
| YEXTYext, Inc. | $7.34 | 43.2x | 20.4x | 0.00% | 27.76% | $726.5M |
| QMCOQuantum Corp | $18.48 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $728.3M |
| FEIMFrequency Electronics Inc | $65.18 |
| 101.2x |
| — |
| — |
| 616.3x |
| 474.9x |
| 512.6x |
| 699.1x |
| 134.1x |
| — |
| 42.7x |
| 41.3x |
| 37.8x |
| 31.0x |
| 33.4x |
| 21.9x |
| 22.3x |
| P/S | 5.0x | 2.7x | 1.8x | 3.3x | 2.6x | 4.7x | 12.6x | 10.7x | 9.4x | 8.3x | 5.0x | 5.3x | 5.0x | 5.1x | 5.7x | 4.2x | 3.9x |
| P/B | 4.5x | 3.6x | 2.7x | 4.9x | 1.4x | 2.2x | 4.2x | 5.7x | 8.7x | 8.0x | 4.7x | 5.3x | 4.8x | 4.2x | 5.1x | 3.8x | 3.7x |
| EPS | $1.21 | -$0.36 | -$47.20 | $0.17 | $0.35 | $0.64 | $0.41 | $1.86 | -$0.79 | $2.91 | $2.97 | $2.63 | $2.49 | $2.35 | $2.29 | $1.86 |
| Dividend yield | 0.52% | 0.39% | 0.82% | 0.49% | 0.61% | 0.39% | 0.20% | 0.22% | 0.26% | 0.31% | 0.51% | 0.52% | 0.64% | 0.79% | 0.73% | 1.06% | 1.18% |
| Payout | 26.34% | 39.67% | — | — | 376.47% | 182.86% | 100.00% | 156.10% | 34.41% | — | 21.99% | 21.55% | 24.33% | 24.50% | 24.26% | 23.14% | 26.34% |
| Profit margin | 4.98% | 2.69% | -0.82% | -117.60% | 0.42% | 1.01% | 2.44% | 1.51% | 7.26% | -3.08% | 11.94% | 13.19% | 13.43% | 17.07% | 18.20% | 19.99% | 18.06% |
| ROE | 5.16% | 3.60% | -1.24% | -174.87% | 0.24% | 0.48% | 0.81% | 0.81% | 6.72% | -2.98% | 11.43% | 13.19% | 13.04% | 13.99% | 16.02% | 18.03% | 16.98% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-23.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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